“Cardiac arrest” is an action; not a diagnosis; her death is a mystery The wonderfully interesting Julie Powell — author of Julia and Julie: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen — died suddenly and unexpectedly at her home last week. …

History and Luck and Money Not a lot has changed in CovidWorld since the last time I wrote. Our hospitalization numbers continue to go down in the US although not as nicely as a couple of weeks ago (and up in the Northeast). Wastewater Covid is higher in some areas…

As variants sputter along — (I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. If you liked this and some of my other missives, you can support both Medium and me here.) We are in a stage of the “mostlies.” Things Covid-wise are mostly pretty good right now, with most of our numbers (deaths, hospitalizations…

The new vaccine the CDC is recommending for everyone over 12 Today’s missive is about the new bivalent “Omicron vaccine” Cases (unreliable numbers) and hospitalizations (pretty reliable) and deaths (most reliable) all are in decline but basically we’re in a plateau — a long summer plateau — looking nervously at winter. Covid marches on. It is still all around…

The accumulation of Covid 19 stories and science Covid’s ferocity continues to decline. The combination of a) vaccines protecting us from serious disease, and b) so many people having had previous Covid exposure, is giving us a nice decline in all bad numbers: — Gazillions of us have it on…

Time to Re-Stock? Two topics today: 1) what to do if you get Covid, and 2) what to have in your Covid Kit Given that everybody is traveling and coming back from camp and every day there’s less masking and Omicron’s BA.5 …

Ten Advances in Covid Science That Kept Him Okay — Update: Most numbers are up as the BA.5 version of Omicron takes over. There’s a ton of Covid out there, friends, and most cases I hear about are related to travel or large family gatherings. Nowadays, if you travel, eat, drink, or shout indoors (which I consider part and parcel…

Letting Go Of Prior Covid Assumptions There’s more Covid around than a few weeks ago in a lot of the US (west is wild, northeast is a bit calmer). …

Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates Vaccinating the Littles Why Vaccines for Ages 0–5 Were Unanimously Approved So what about the kids? Little kid vaccines (under 5) got approved last week, and all of my doctor friends with wee ones are haunting the telephone lines and internet trying to find appointments for their kids as quickly as possible. As was true with the…